Blended Post ( Cuba Exprience )

I had an experience when i was in about grade 6 with a totalitarian government, when my family and i went on a trip to Cuba. When we arrived at our resort in Varadero, Cuba it was really beautiful just like all the pictures we saw and all the people working there were really nice. Our second day staying there i noticed my mom giving the cleaning ladies that worked at the hotel little soaps tooth pastes, and shampoo bottles and they were so grateful so these items and i didn't really know why. My mom said to me because they get paid such a low rate to work and they can't afford food clothes and basic necessities so give them those little things really helps them out. But they were also worried because if they got caught they would be in trouble.

Later in our week in Cuba we went on a trip to Havana and when we got there it was not what i thought Cuba looked like. On the tourist parts of Cuba it's a really beautiful country, beautiful beaches and hot weather, but when you go to the parts of the country were it's people live like Havana, you see how the people live. The streets looked philthy and all the building looked really old and dirty. Before we got off the bus the driver instructed everyone on the bus to leave there valuables behind, because when we got off the bus the people that live there know we are tourists and maybe they can get something off of us, or for us to buy or give them money. The totalitarian government in Cuba controls all of the people within the country just like in the book 1984. It's not to the exact extremities but with the same idea, the people don't have a choice, they don't have a choice to vote because there is only one political party. Both in the book 1984 and in present day Cuba people don't have the basic rights we do and are told what to do by the government.